Dickens always wrote about the class struggle. He always made some comment about how the rich over looked the poor. Many of the quotations you have put before me today reflect that position. He made social commentary as often as he could.
This does not mention government. Nor do I think it was implied. It is true that the workhouses were government run and they were shameful. Let's see if we have a better answer.
It's not A. The description sounds more like what you would read about Malnutrition.
D is not correct either. This is about the body and how it has been deformed from lack of food and good clean shelter. It has nothing to do with psychology.
E I don't even know where this came from. How can one desire the dreadful condition of those children? It's not E.
It's not B either. We have a better answer.
It's C. Society has come to a very poor answer with workhouses.
